North American QSO Party, SSB
Call: AA4LR
Operator(s): AA4LR
Station: AA4LR
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 8.0
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 3 3
80: 36 20
40: 115 38
20: 188 50
15: 60 25
10: 52 17
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Total: 454 153 Total Score = 69,003
Club: South East Contest Club
Team: SECC #1
Comments:
Antennas:
A3S at 15m (10-15-20m)
40m half-sloper at 12m (40m)
80m doublet at 10m (80m, 160m)
Equipment:
Kenwood TS-430S, running 100 watts
Kenwood AT-250
K1KP-style homebrew voice keyer (1 message)
(Elecraft K2 has a PLL problem I'm still trying to diagnose, likely
caused by the temperature compensation mod, so I used the backup rig this
contest)
Comments:
I had planned a full-time effort, but when my wife came down with
pneumonia, I had to fill in where I could. In the first half, I was only
able to log about 2 hours operating time, in between taking my eldest
daughter to a birthday party and back, making dinner, and waiting out a
local thunderstorm.
Still, I managed to have some fun. A good run on 10 and 15m. Best moment
was having KH6VV call in on 15m and go "Oh Wow!" when I turned the beam
in his direction.
Back on at 0000z, I thought I had missed the meat of the contest. 20m had
gotten quiet and in about 50 minutes I had worked it out. Down to the low
bands for the rest of the evening. Or so I thought.
Back up to 20m at 0225z to catch the far west mults I had missed. 20m had
that special quality it sometimes gets. Signals aren't terribly strong,
but they were rather short, mostly straight north in 8, 9 and 3-land. So,
I thought I'd try a CQ and see what happens. I would stay on 20m for the
next hour and a half, working 104 stations in the 0300z hour. I came
within six states of WAS, missing only CT, RI, AL, KS, MO and NE, all on
20m.
Last two hours were split between 40m and 80m, with a fruitful 5 minute
excursion to 160m. Bands get real quiet after 0530z, I suppose since just
about everyone was out of time.
Worked lots of SECC members, as well as a bunch of TCG and FCG members.
Good show, guys!
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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